Re: [TCML] [PA]Forecast good for Cal U students' StormFest

[resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Yes, that's the one.

Kauffman stood atop the wooden framework covered in a large metallic suit
shooting 10 ft sparks off his mesh fingertips.  George said it got warm
but he could stand it for 60 second bursts.  He did it for the guys in
WWII.

Dr. Resonance



> Dr. R was that the one that used to reside at the old Bheul Science center
> that was located right next to the Carnegie library on the North side of
> Pittsburgh?
>   as a kid i awed at that thing.....i was never allowed to even get
> close..
>
>   hummmm...brings back great memories of that science center.
>
>   tim
>
> resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> The coil was built in 1903 by George Kauffman, resident of Pittsburg. I
> met George back in 1972 a few years before he passed away. He made some
> very interesting B&W "newsreels" that were shown overseas to the soldiers
> fighting in the Pacific and Germany. George's father actually knew Nikola
> Tesla on a first name basis.
>
> The coil used plate glass caps, a RSG, 12 kV pole xmfr, stood approx 24
> inch dia x 10 ft tall, but, unfortunately only had a small 2 ft dia sphere
> on top of it.
>
> George told me that once, while they were repairing a damaged winding on
> the sec coil, a friend of his was standing atop the sec coil (wood
> supported) soldering the wire and some prankster turned the coil on. It
> blew off two of the toes on his feet. He lived thru it.
>
> It actually hits 565 kV not 1 MEV.
>
> It is the oldest operating Tesla coil in the US.
>
> Dr. Resonance
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>> [of possible interest...
>> Edited for brevity...
>>
>> best
>> dwp
>> ]
>> http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_553992.html
>>
>> Forecast good for Cal U students' StormFest
>> By Mike Wereschagin
>> TRIBUNE-REVIEW
>> Sunday, February 24, 2008
>>
>> A modest plan by college students to get middle-schoolers interested in
>> the
>> weather turned out to be lightning in a bottle -- or, at least, in a
>> cage.
>>
>> StormFest, a three-day program organized by California University of
>> Pennsylvania meteorology students, is expected to draw more than
>> 800 pupils to the Carnegie Science Center beginning Friday. The program
>> will include weather-related experiments, IMAX films and a million-volt
>> lightning simulator that creates brilliant 8-foot arcs of electricity
>> inside
>> a cage.
>> ...
>> The lightning will come from the science center's Tesla Coil, a
>> nearly-100-year-old set of copper coils that acts like a home's
>> transformer
>> in reverse. Instead of reducing the voltage, the coils take the 220
>> volts
>> flowing through normal electrical lines and increase it dramatically,
>> said
>> Mike Hennessy. He and science center educator Aimee Beitel Kampbell will
>> operate the device for students.
>> ...
>>
>> [I wonder if its REALLY a '100 year od coil, or the concept thats
>> 100 years old. And '8 foot' sparks?}
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